Best Case Studies

Glamourparis.com is the french version of the well-known Glamour Magazine, published by CondéNast editorial (Vogue, Wired, Architectural Digest and other magazines)

Glamour Paris found in Drupal a flexible app that helps the development on record time, even with the integration of external ecommerce solutions.

The success of Drupal was the creation of many custom blocks and 45 Content Types, some of them with more than 50 CCK fields and each one with a dedicated TPL.

Now, glamourparis.fr has 5M pages views…

The New York Observer, a prominent New York City newspaper, has relaunched its web site using Drupal. The site features a gorgeous visual design by Randi Hazan which pays careful attention to typography and whitespace. The Drupal craftsmen, Moshe Weitzman and Barry Jaspan, want to share a few of their innovative techniques with the Drupal community

The sites for Arts & Sciences (http://artsci.wustl.edu/), The College (http://college.artsci.wustl.edu/), and University College (http://ucollege.wustl.edu/) at Washingtion University in St. Louis are all part of a single multi-site Drupal implementation for the division of Arts & Sciences.

One of the nation’s leading art museums in development of new media content, the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) is committed to using cutting-edge museum technology as a means to engage and educate its visitors. By using Drupal the IMA was able to elevate their Web presence with an innovative, non-traditional site that allows them to better communicate directly with their audience.

Red Room is the online home of many of the world’s greatest writers. Through original, author-generated content, redroom.com offers a trustworthy and creative social network unlike any other. In the Red Room, you can connect with your favorite authors, access current news, and comment on features and blogs. By showcasing writers, redroom.com fosters true community between authors and readers and inspires the next generation.

How To Do Things.com is a community sharing their expertise to solve people’s problems. After 6 months of specifications, migrations, Drupal module development, theme designing and beta testing, HowToDoThings.com was reborn as a Drupal powered site. We house over 4000 unique member articles found in 300+ categories. We when launched the site, we were also one of the first sites to fully implement the Google AdSense API framework with 50% revenue sharing with our authors.

The Rake is an arts and culture magazine based in Minneapolis/St. Paul and is known for its storytelling, humor, style, and personality. Their new Drupal site has brought them great flexibility and ease-of-management, as well as improved traffic and host of other benefits.
You can read more about the website at drupal.org’s Rake Magazine case study.